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Adobe, the Apple killer.

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

If you follow my blog, you will notice that I take a lot of effort in looking at Adobe and what they are doing with their flash technology. To help position this post, let me first refer to previous posts in reverse chronological order: Flash DRM, a disappointing implementation: where I discuss pitfalls in Adobe’s [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · flash · IPTV · P2P

Flash DRM, a disappointing implementation.

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently Adobe released  “Flash Media Rights Management Server“. More details have come to light, and unfortunately it is not good. Follow this link for a good overview of the latest development in the Flash DRM. Unfortunately Adobe appears to have lost the plot here.  The details regarding FMRMS are a strange departure from what appeared [...]

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Tags: Adobe · DRM · flash · flex · IPTV

Where is the digital media ignition point?

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

If you have not noticed, my blog mainly covers technological issues to do with the adoption or digital media. As such, I talk to a lot of people regarding their business models for expanding digital media. One strange, trend that has appeared is that many companies developing digital media strategies are, by admition, ignoring a [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Standards

Adobe’s plan for world domination

January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

This week I was lucky to have a Flex evangelist from Adobe, Daniel Dura, come to my town of Melbourne to tote the Adobe line.  Of course, being a “digital media head” I drilled him on all the questions I could think of that would give me a peek into the future directions of Adobe. [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · flash · flex · IPTV · Microsoft · Standards

AVCHD straight to Flash Player 9.3 demo (Flash Rocks)

January 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Recently I got a Xacti VPC-HD1000. This is the smallest 1080i video camera on the market, plus 8M picture camera. It stores the video data on a solid state 4gig SD card in AVCHD. AVCHD is another name for H.264. Flash Player 9 revision 3 recently came out supporting H.264/AAC. This made me consider the [...]

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Tags: Adobe · codecs · flash · flex · IPTV